Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Al the problems in America and this is what the federal government decides to focus on

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  • JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was part of an overall package including aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is that supposed to make it better?

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  • Facebones@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its not helping Biden not being able to censor information on his part genocide. None of them gave a fuck about tiktok until they told em to take down pro Palestinian content and got told “lulnope”

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    • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tiktok has been a subject of national security concerns since at least 2020.

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• UNIX84@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thanks AIPAC, for protecting Americans from foreign misinformation campaigns.

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  • stembolts@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They outlawed Fox News?

    Don’t pretend this is about disinformation.

    This is about the seizure of media outlets that don’t parrot pro-capitalist propaganda.

    But it’s too late, the majority of each generation millennial and later is anti-capitalist. The critique media will simply change form.

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    • Scrof@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, only boomers watch Fox News, young people watch TikTok making it a way more potent weapon.

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    • UNIX84@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fox News isn’t rallying people against Palestine.

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  • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So they banned facebook and twitter too? 'Cause…

    wired.com/…/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-vote…

    forbes.com/…/pro-trump-twitter-bot-campaign-alrea…

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    • UNIX84@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, Facebook and Twitter are still useful for the status quo.

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  • zaphod@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh please. The anti-TikTok hysteria has been going on much longer than the Israeli invasion of Gaza.

    Agree or not with the anti-China rhetoric about TikTok, but at least argue about the facts and not inane conspiracy theories.

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• fisco@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So much for the land of the free.🤦🏻‍♂️

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  • slin@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What? The “land of the free”? Whoever told you that is your enemy

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Makes sense. There is no way you let a foreign adversary control an app that serves 100m of your citizens emotionally charged shortform content.

  That would similar to the ccp owning every major American news network combined.

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  • remington@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I believe most people in this thread are missing your point in which I agree.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To play devil’s advocate here, I think it’s necessary for a social media platform to exist that’s outside the control of the US government. Just because we have the first amendment here that doesn’t mean our speech is protected, just look at what happens when protesters do it the “wrong” way.

    Does that mean China gives a shit about our freedoms? No. They just won’t be forced into censoring things the US would want though, and the gap between their opposing hegemonic ambitions is where people can truly say what they want about the US in certain topics. While it’s true the CCP is data mining American citizens, their reach to compromise individuals is dwarfed by what US companies can do already.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Im curious if you think it would be OK for ccp to own to own CNN and fox news and control broadcasting for hundreds of millions of Americans.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hahaha yeah tell that to every other country that has Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and every other American social media company serving it’s citizens emotionally charged content. Facebook was even implicated in inciting a genocide. The US isn’t any better than the CCP here. Though it very much falls into capitalist rather than state control, the end result isn’t much different.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I never said the us was any better. im very aware of the us influence on the internet. But there is a big difference between the us and China and say the us and britan or the us and (any small country that isn’t allied with the us but is to small to go independent).

      Adversarial nations that are big enough to break free of FAANG company already have. Russia and China do not what the us dominating their social media landscapes. Why would the us allow China to dominates its social media landscape when they can ban it and supplement it with companies that are within their governments arms reach.

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• FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  gonna kiss myself with a cement brick if they let zuckerberg buy it and turn it into the same UX nightmare that reels is

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